China Glaze is famous for their exceptional glitter polishes. This is such a polish: Full Spectrum from the Prismatic Collection. This polish is packed with pink micro glitter and bigger hexa glitters in pink, yellow, green, orange and blue. In everyday life the polish is not too gaudy but thanks to the pink basic color rather discreet. This polish dryes extremely quick. Three coats are dry in no time.

Tip: To avoid the painful removing of glitter polish I recommend essence peel off base coat. With it glitter polish can be removed fast and easy and your nails won't be dryed up from nail polish remover. I will tell you more about this base coat soon.

This pretty nail polish is "Unpredictable" from China Glaze's New Bohemian collection. The color of this polish changes from a golden green to mint green and turquoise. The polish is frosted and slightly streaky after applying. It is absolutely necessary to apply very thin coats. Otherwise the polish will not dry thoroughly.The color ist just lovely and it is fun to watch the colors change.

A good topcoat is very important for a nail polish addict (I beg your pardon, nail polish professional). I tryed this topcoat for a while but I can not recommend it. The topcoat is very tough and has to be apllied very quickly. To get an even and neat surface it is necessary to dip the brush into the topcoat twice (per nail).

But lets get to the main issue: This topcoat does not dry quickly at all! After 45 minutes the polish can still be damaged (fingerprints, dints, even full parts of the polish can be disarranged).

I treated myself with my first expensive nail polish and I don't regret it even for a second."Knackered" is a metallic purple-green polish with shiny pieces of glitter that gleam in all the colors of a rainbow. This polish is very sheer and not opaque after three coats, you can still see the white of the tips shine through. Usually I don't like sheer polishes but this nail polish is so beautiful that nothing could weak my enthusiasm! Even my boyfriend likes this color and said it looks like 80ies science fiction. ;-)

My second essie polish is "dive bar". On other blogs I have read how enthusiastic everyone is about essie nail polish. But I can not share this enthusiasm. For me essie polishes are too viscous and that means that the polish can not be spread accurate. And even with quick drying top coat and quick dry drops the polish is still not entirely dry after 45 minutes.

The special effect topper dries very fast and you can easily apply a few thick coats of it without getting sticky nails. I think this look is natural even though the glitter is an eye-catcher. But you can see the natural nails and that looks well manicured.

The color of this lacquer is very elegant and you will receive compliments for it. But the durability is bad. After one day the nails no longer looked pretty. All in all I have to say I would rather buy a dark red polish from another brand before buying another polish from Manhattan that won't even last for two days. Until now I used the nail polishes from Manhattan for my pedicure and they were pretty good and durable for that.